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What needs to be done is consider whether the costs of safety is driving people off the railway. If a safety device/procedure will save 1 death equivalent per 1,000,000 passenger miles, but the costs drive some passengers to the less safe roads, and some of those have serious accidents, is that...

Good job Alcester closed some decades ago then !!! (Locals call it 'olsta'. Brummies say it how it's spelled)

Really? How about finding a bus in Kirkby Stephen or millom.

There was Melton between Selby and Hull. It was in the Baker rail atlas with an asterisk. And only appeared as a footnote in the BR passenger timetable. Never did work out what was going on. Its has a Wiki entry but I cant find mention of it in 1978 BR passenger Timetbale

Not to do with skinny dippers in Morecambe Bay then :)

Isnt the station in Flookburgh?

Wasnt it Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway for a while?

Bare Lane? Its the station for Bare.

Were there steam/diesel combinations before the end of BR steam? Timetabled and emergency ones. Sorry, not old enough to know!

Plusbus in West Yorkshire covers the whole county. Buy a Weeton - Horsforth day return and get a £4 plus bus to ride to Todmorden, Huddersfield and Wakefield.

There is room to the east to make a bypass.

Like the Berlin Aussenring then. Sort of necessary pre-unification. Now largely abandoned except for the s-bahn.

This help? https://maps.nls.uk/view/82893912 (Link to image of map published 1911, showing a south to east cut off.)

some people find changing difficult. Walking problems, not being used to a busy city, scared of missing conections because of issues in London etc. And if you have luggage its a problem too.

its not changing trains that the problem with london. its having to change twice. And a trip down the tube. I remember being taken across London as a kid*. For me it was an eye-opener, but for the adult with us (Sometimes a parent, sometimes grandad) it must have been difficult with 2 primary...

Quarantine cut to 5 days subject to negative lateral flow tests on 2 consecutive days*. Can we expect better reliability from the railway now? * England only I think.

S&C isn't just tourists. Get the early train from settle on a weekday and it will be rammed with commuters. Loads of kids going to college in skipton. And people needing to be in leeds/Bradford early. And the train doesn't come into Settle empty either. I have also had to stand on the next train...

Wasnt Oxenholme 'Kendal Junction' at one point?

Colne, settle, ilkley, upper wharfedale and upper ribblesdale, worth valley.

This has it as harbour hotel stn.